Issued in 8 parts, dated: I.1) for Johannes de Colonia, 1 Feb. 1483; I.2) 2 Oct. 1483; II. 1.1) 27 May 1483; II. 1.2) 25 Sept. 1483; II. 2.1) 12 Sept. 1483; II. 2.2) 8 Oct. 1483; III. 1) 25 Oct. 1483; III. 2) for Johannes de Colonia, 3 Feb. 1483
Royal folio; 66 lines per page; initial spaces with guide letters
[I.1] Praedicamenta, De interpretatione, Analytica priora (Tr: Boethius). Analytica posteriora (Tr: Jacobus Veneticus). Topica, Sophistici elenchi (Tr: Boethius). Porphyrius: Isagoge in Aristotelis Praedicamenta (Tr: Boethius) -- [I.2] Physica -- [II. 1.1] De caelo et mundo (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka and Michael Scotus) -- [II. 1.2] De generatione et corruptione -- [II. 2.1] De anima (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka and Michael Scotus) -- [II. 2.2] De sensu et sensato, De memoria et reminiscentia, De somno et vigilia, De longitudine et brevitate vitae, Meteorologica (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka). Averroes: De substantia orbis (Tr: Michael Scotus) -- [III. 1] Metaphysica (lib. i-xii, tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka, with the 'vetus translatio'). Nicoletus Vernia: Quaestio an caelum sit ex materia et forma constitutum -- [III. 2] Ethica ad Nicomachum (Tr: Robertus Grosseteste). Politica (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka). Oeconomica (Tr: Durandus de Alvernia)
Catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A387
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, A962
Incunabula short title catalogue, ia00962000
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.21 FOLIO imperfect: comprised of part II, 1.1 and 1.2 only (118 leaves: a-h⁸ aa-dd⁸ ee⁶ ff⁸ gg¹⁰). Leaves c3 and c5 wanting and replaced with duplicate leaves ee3 and ee4. Margins of a2 recto with contemporary hand-painted border of white vines on red, blue, and green background enclosed in green rectangular wreath. In lower margin of a2: coat of arms (azure, a fleur de lys and a crescent or palewise), surrounded by a wreath supported by four putti. Dampstaining in upper corners of most leaves. Leaf dimensions: 422 x 279 mm.
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.21 FOLIO: bookplate of Henry Yates Thompson. Early/contemporary marginalia throughout. Purchased June 1942.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.21 FOLIO bound in modern brown patterned paper. Spine unlabeled.
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